Here’s a great way to protect your cabbage plants growing in your garden from the notorious cabbage root fly, which lays its eggs right next to the roots. You can make these homemade cabbage collars, can use them in your garden.

Althoough they are usually reffered to as cabbage collars, you can also use them to protect your brussels sprouts, cauliflowers and broccoli. You can save a lot of money by making your own collars instead of buying fron your local garden centre.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• doormat or old carpet,
• old CD
• marker or pen
• scissors

Start off by laying your mat or carpet flat on the floor, so that you can use the CD to trace out the outer edges so you are left with circles. The circles need to be cut out before you cut each one halfway in a straight line. The last two cuts create a Y sahape within the cut out circle.

That is all there is to this project. Now you can slip each disc onto the stems of the cabbage plant leaving the root section covered. After a couple of waterings the disc should lie flat on the ground. Obviously you will need a disc for each plant, that is why purchasing the collars usually ends up being expensive.

You can follow step by step instructions on the Fiona Grows Food blog, here…

How To Make Cabbage Collars

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